N.Y. Public Authorities Law § 1199-bb*2: Definitions

* § 1199-bb. Definitions. As used or referred to in this title, unless

a different meaning clearly appears from the context:

1. "Authority" means the corporation created by section one thousand

one hundred ninety-nine-dd of this title.

2. "Bonds" means the bonds, notes or other evidences of indebtedness

issued by the authority pursuant to this title, and the provisions of

this title relating to bonds and bondholders shall apply with equal

force and effect to notes and noteholders, respectively, unless the

context otherwise clearly requires.

3. "Civil service commission" means the civil service commission of

the county.

4. "Comptroller" means the comptroller of the state.

5. "Construction" means the acquisition, erection, building,

alteration, improvement, increase, enlargement, extension,

reconstruction, renovation or rehabilitation of a water system; the

inspection and supervision thereof; and the engineering, architectural,

legal, fiscal and economic investigations and studies, surveys, designs,

plans, working drawings, specifications, procedure and other actions

preliminary or incidental thereto.

6. "Cost" as applied to any project, includes the cost of

construction, the cost of the acquisition of all property, including

real property and other property, both real and personal and improved

and unimproved, the cost of the demolishing, removing or relocating any

buildings or structures on lands so acquired, including the cost of

acquiring any lands to which such buildings or structures may be moved

or relocated, the cost of all systems, facilities, machines, apparatus

and equipment, financing charges, interest prior to, during and after

construction to the extent not paid or provided for from revenues or

other sources, the cost of engineering and architectural surveys, plans

and specifications, the cost of consultant and legal services, the cost

of guarantee, bond insurance, other credit support device and the cost

of other expenses necessary or incidental to the construction of such

project and the financing of the construction thereof, including the

amount authorized in the resolution of the authority providing for the

issuance of bonds to be paid into any reserve or other special funds

from the proceeds of such bonds and the financing of the placing of any

project in operation, including reimbursement to the county, or any

municipality, state agency, the state, the United States government, or

any other person for expenditures that would be costs of the project

hereunder had they been made directly by the authority.

7. "County" means the county of Orange.

8. "County executive" means the county executive of the county.

9. "County legislature" means the county legislature of the county.

10. "District" means the Orange county water district created by

section one thousand one hundred ninety-nine-cc of this title.

11. "Distribution system" means the water facility or facilities

employed to deliver water from a transmission facility, or where there

is no transmission facility, from a supply facility, to the ultimate

consumers of such water.

12. "Governing body" means the members of the authority constituting

and acting as the governing body of the authority.

13. "Municipality" means any county, city, town, village, improvement

district under the town law, any other such instrumentality, including

any agency, or public corporation of the state, or any of the foregoing

or any combination thereof.

14. "Person" means any natural person, partnership, association, joint

venture or corporation, exclusive of a public corporation.

15. "Project" means any water facility.

16. "Properties" means the water system or systems of the authority,

whether situated within or without the territorial limits of the

district, including the plants, works, structures, instrumentalities or

part thereof and appurtenances thereto, real property, water facilities,

or any other property incidental to and included in such system or

systems or part thereof, any improvements, extensions and betterments.

17. "Real property" means lands, structures, franchise, rights and

interests in land, waters, land under water, riparian rights and air

rights and any and all things and rights included within said term and

includes not only fees simple absolute, but also any and all lesser

interests including, but not limited to, easements, rights-of-way, uses,

leases, licenses and all other incorporeal hereditaments and every

estate, interest or right, legal or equitable, including terms for years

and liens thereon by way of judgments, mortgages or otherwise.

18. "Revenues" means all rates, fees, charges, payments and other

income and receipts derived from the operation of the properties of the

authority including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing,

investment proceeds and proceeds of insurance, condemnation, and sale or

other disposition of assets, together with all federal, state or

municipal aid, if any.

19. "State" means the state of New York.

20. "State agency" means any state officer, public benefit

corporation, department, board, commission, bureau or division, or other

agency or instrumentality of the state.

21. "Supply facility" means a water facility employed to make

groundwater, surface water or water to be purchased from the city of New

York, the New York city municipal water finance authority, New York city

water board or any agency or instrumentality thereof, available for

delivery into a transmission facility or distribution system.

22. "Transmission facility" means a water facility used to carry water

from a supply facility to a distribution system.

23. "Water facility" or "water facilities" means any plants,

structures and other real and personal property acquired, rehabilitated

or constructed or planned for the purpose of accumulating, supplying,

transmitting, treating or distributing water, including but not limited

to surface or groundwater reservoirs, basins, dams, canals, aqueducts,

aqueduct taps, standpipes, conduits, pipelines, mains, pumping stations,

pumps, water distribution systems, compensating reservoirs, intake

stations, waterworks or sources of water supply, wells, purification or

filtration plants or other treatment plants and works, contract rights,

franchises, approaches, connections, permits, water meters, rights of

flowage or diversion and other plants, structures, equipment, vehicles,

conveyances, real or personal property or rights therein and

appurtenances thereto necessary or useful and convenient for the

accumulation, supply, transmission, treatment or distribution of water.

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